Wetting Phenomena at the Free Surface of the Isotropic Phase of a Smectic Liquid Crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 3487-3490

  Lucht, R ^a   Bahr, Ch ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 4243697473     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.3487     Document Type: Article

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